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In the past, I’ve done some art with famous chess games. I was doing it all “by hand”. But I just recently spent some time automating the process. Thank to the “rchess” package: http://jkunst.com/rchess/#pgn These are all available for purchase here.
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@causalKathy explains all of statistics in 30 seconds.
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This morning Yahoo Sports published a piece titled “Op-ed: How one flawed study and irresponsible reporting launched a wave of CTE hysteria,” written by Merril Hoge, a former NFL running back and ESPN analyst, and Dr. Peter Cummings, an Assistant Professor with the Boston University School of Medicine. In it, they criticize the methods of an…
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Wins are a shitty statistics in baseball. You can be a great pitcher on a terrible team and end up with a win-loss record that isn’t impressive at all. For instance you could be Jacob DeGrom and be an outstanding pitcher on an awful team (The Mets were 77-85). deGrom ended the season with a…
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Last summer I wrote about how much water hurricane Harvey had dropped on the Houston area. And I decided to revisit this with Florence making landfall. Florence is expected to drop 10 trillion gallons of water on the Carolinas and the surrounding regions. That’s a ton of water. Here it is relative to the great…
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Update: Someone on Twitter suggested that these advancement grids should be weighted by how likely the scenario is. Here is what those looked like before the last games of Groups G and H. Each team in the World Cup is through 2 games and every team has one game left in the group stage. Below…
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So I was watching game 1 of the NBA finals, and I got to thinking about how some of these players have been around for a long time in the NBA (Lebron was drafted in 2003!!!) So I to basketball reference and looked back at some old drafts. Then I got the idea to scrape…
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Batting Best April 3, 2018 – Yankees vs Rays – Didi Gregorius: 6.58 RAA.bat, 4-4, BB, 3 R, 8 RBI, Double, 2 HR Bases Empty – Double Runners on 1st and 3rd – Homerun Runner on 1st – Walk Runners on 1st and 3rd – Homerun Bases Loaded – Single Worst April 13, 2018 –…
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One of the nice things about openWAR is that you can compute it over any time period and you can look at its individual components. Here I’ve looked at Mike Trout’s batting component in openWAR (raa.bat) over the course of the 2018 season. His best game performance so far in terms of hitting was on 4/8/2018…
